AllianceBernstein

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment-management firm that strives to anticipate and advance what’s next. A diverse group of clients, from institutional to retail investors, has entrusted us with managing US$549 billion in assets across the globe. With an extensive global footprint, our experts share ideas across disciplines, geographies, asset classes and sectors, to develop research advantages that make a difference to investing returns. AB employs 3,450 employees across 22 countries—from the US, to Europe, Asia and beyond—in 48 cities, as of 31 March 2018. Our experienced team includes 207 buy-side analysts and 142 portfolio managers. Highly skilled in-house research teams enable us to provide our clients with a strategic investment advantage built on over 50 years of experience investing in world markets. AB is a truly global asset-management and research firm with a unique combination of expertise, innovative solutions and global reach. We strive to provide global perspective and investment clarity, and to deliver better outcomes for investors.

Achieving Diverse Goals

It takes insightful, unbiased advice to help investors achieve diverse goals in complex markets. Working closely with our clients, we identify the best solutions in equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives.

Experience Counts

Knowledge, judgment and conviction are critical in facing tomorrow’s challenges. Top industry talent and a strong financial foundation ensure that our firm has the expertise and flexibility to help clients in new ways.

A diverse group of clients, including institutions ranging from pension plans to local governments, has entrusted us with managing their assets. This diversity gives us a better understanding of what really matters to investors. Leveraging our extensive global footprint—built over four decades—we harness collective research insights to design, tailor and apply innovative strategies that help our clients stay ahead of tomorrow.

With climate change, portfolio managers face a new type of variable with diverse effects on economies, industries and companies. AB investors and experts from Columbia University and Willis Towers Watson weigh in on how to address climate change in the investment process.

The global climate is enormously complex, challenging investors to determine ground-level impacts on individual issuers. With climate change likely to accelerate, it’s time to ramp up analysis now—and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

China’s stock markets have been remarkably resilient. As the world’s second-largest economy emerged first from the virus-induced shock, corporate earnings downgrades were relatively contained while government stimulus was preserved for future use.

Tensions between the US and China are flaring up again, but tariffs probably aren’t on the table this time. With pressure mounting on Chinese stocks listed in the US, including those widely held in emerging-market portfolios, investors need to consider how to prepare for the mounting risks.

China is further along the coronavirus curve than much of the rest of the world and is on a fast path toward normal. We think its experience bears close watching—not only because China is a major contributor to global economic activity, but also because there will likely be important takeaways for the rest of the world as other countries plan their own reopenings.

Best practice for defined contribution pensions inevitably involves well-designed default options. Multi-asset approaches are the best fit for most investors but views differ about how to best structure them